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Spielberg Says He Would Only Make a Netflix Film If They Shipped DVDs Again

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Steven Spielberg has a straightforward answer for anyone who wants to know his terms for working with Netflix: bring back their DVD model. In an interview with ITV News published on June 8, the director said he would only take on a Netflix project if the platform went back to its roots of delivering DVDs to people’s homes. "So, the idea of sending little cassettes, little DVDs, you know, to individuals to watch a movie — if I did that, I would be happy to work for Netflix and make a movie for Netflix, knowing that it's only going to be seen by millions of people on their home screens," he said. "But I'm a movie maker, and I believe in big motion picture, 70-millimeter theatrical experiences." Spielberg has notoriously been anti-streaming for close to a decade. In a 2018 interview with Variety , he argued that streaming-first films should not qualify for Academy Award consideration . "Once you commit to a television format, you're a TV movie," he said at the time.…

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